Scarlett Johansson's cop protection plea

Scarlett Johansson has been pleading with police to protect her from marauding Los Angeles' paparazzi.

The sexy actress says the ruthless shuttlebugs are scaring her and endangering her life.

She confessed: "It's become insane. I went to Los Angeles a couple of months ago, and there were four SUVs parked outside my house every day. They would

just follow me everywhere I went - if I went to buy paper towels, or I went to a meeting, or anything.

"I've called the police several times and said, 'Listen, there are people following me in very big cars. They're surrounding me in these huge

vehicles - vehicles nobody should be driving - and I feel unsafe.'

She added to Britain's Sunday Times Culture magazine: "But the police can do nothing. It's not even the fact of being photographed: that's just an annoyance. It's actually scary. They're endangering people. Not just me, but everybody else driving around me. It's horrible."